“This is wholly unacceptable,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a Tuesday afternoon briefing. “I’m not satisfied.”

“These storms have now become the rule rather the exception. They have to have the capacity to quickly restore power,” he added, as he called on the state Public Service Commission to investigate New York’s utility companies.

John Rhodes, chair of the PSC, called the situation a “severe and prolonged outage.”

“What we have now is not good enough for New Yorkers and not good enough for their safety,” he said.

Con Edison deployed hundreds of work crews Tuesday, hoping to have the “vast majority” of power restored by 11 p.m.

“We’ve got 400 mutual aid crews out now. We expect more to come in as the days go on because we know this other storm is coming,” Con Edison spokesman Michael Clendenin told NBC’s “Today.”

The National Weather Service is issuing a winter storm warning for the New York area starting 10 p.m. Tuesday and lasting until 4 a.m. Thursday.

City residents will likely wake up to a wintry mix of rain and snow Wednesday and the flurries will continue to fall until the evening, covering streets in from 6 to 12 inches. The heaviest snowfalls will take place in areas west and north of the city, meteorologists said.

“We’re concerned about a compounding effect,” Cuomo said. “The snow will dramatically slow the progress we are making.”

The governor warned people left without power during Wednesday’s onslaught not to stay home in the cold.

“If someone doesn’t have power tomorrow morning, that situation could get serious,” he said.

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While wind gusts won’t be as strong as those in the last storm, which downed dozens of trees, heavy wet snow could bring down more power lines weakened by the bombogenesis.

“Anyone that’s still without power will probably remain without power during the storm because it will be dangerous for road crews to come out due to weather conditions,” said Accuweather meteorologist Frank Straight.

“We’re likely to see more downed power lines,” he added.

New Yorkers expecting to brave the storm should expect travel delays, including on roads and in the air.

Express subway service may be terminated by Wednesday afternoon or early evening, MTA chairman Joe Lhota said.

“The MTA is taking this storm very, very seriously,” he said.

Certain buses will be taken off the road, Metro-North will operate on a reduced weekday schedule at some point, and the LIRR and bridges and tunnels will be equipped with deicing materials, snowblowers and extra staff, Lhota said.

After this nor’easter blows over, meteorologists say, they’ll be keeping an eye on another storm approaching. If it holds its course, it could hit the city by Sunday.